App compat shims are a terrific tool for enabling you to modernize your operating system. By resolving app compat issues, this tool has enabled many, many customers to update to the latest version of the operating system, and sometimes even remediate issues with patches. And I would assert that the security value of this modernization…

My luck finally ran out today – so far, I have had zero apps broken by Windows 10 build upgrades, but my streak ended today. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t actually a problem with Windows 10 changing behavior, it was yet another hard coded version check. Quicken 2017 is looking for HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full for the Version…

I wrote up an article that I’ve been sharing with internal teams, and the feedback I’ve been getting has been that we should share this one more broadly. So, here’s my attempt to do exactly that. This one’s going to be a long one, so settle in… Overview Windows 10 introduces a host of features,…

One of the most common questions I’ve been seeing from folks who are migrating to Windows 10 is: “How do I go about hiding all references to Edge / removing it entirely / putting Internet Explorer front and center and ensuring that nobody ever finds Edge?” So naturally, I’m not going to answer that question….

The App Compat Army has had a bit of a break (well, at least I have), but there’s just no holding back the progress of technology (and the fear that this generates)! We’ve done a really terrific job of moving the world forward on the browser, and while a lot of work remains to move…

We are in the final stretch for support for older versions of IE on Windows – January is now right around the corner! We’re seeing customers making great progress, but some are still struggling with the final mile, and we want to understand where things are hard so we can do our best to address…

There’s a lot of activity going on now that we are in the home stretch of trying to get everyone upgraded to the latest version of the browser. For example, we’ve just published a couple of blog articles: Upgrading to a Faster, More Secure Browsing Experience (this one if you’re feeling less nerdy) Continuing to…

As a reminder, to anyone who hasn’t noticed yet, we will be ending support for anything but the latest version of Internet Explorer available for your operating system on January 12, 2016. We’ve been really busy building tools and features to help simplify this, and with four months left, I wanted to take a look…

You may have noticed by now that Enterprise Mode continues to evolve – and as such, the tooling continues to evolve as well. In case you didn’t notice, last week we released a new version of the Enterprise Mode Site List Manager, which has a helpful feature for use with Windows 10: it allows you…

Got an email asking me to check out a forum application that was “behaving weird” on IE11, while behaving correctly on Chrome and Firefox. I’m always interested in having a look at these things, so I got a link and some repro steps and had a look. The application had a button to add in…